Edwin leland shattuck



E. L. SH ATTUOK. FLY FRAME FOR PRINTING MACHINES.

( No Model.)

No. 594,659. Patented Nov.f30, 1897.

NrrED STATES PATENT Fries,

EDWIN LELAND SHATTUOK, OF BROOKLYN, NEIY YORK, ASSIGNOR TO ROBERT HOE, THEODORE H.- MEAD, AND CHARLES W. CARPENTER, I

on NEW YORK, N. Y.

FLY-FRAME FOR PRINTING-MACHINES SPECIFICATION formingpart of Letters Patent No. 594,659, dated November 30, 1897.

Application filed July 11, 1895.

To all whom it may concern.-

Be it known that I, EDWIN LELAND SHAT- TUCK, a citizen of the United States, residing at Brooklyn, county of Kings, and State of New York, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Fly-Frames for Printing-Machines, fullydescribed and represented in the following specification and the accompanying drawings, forming a part of the same.

This invention relates to that class of flyframes for printing-machines in which the fingers are separately removable from their holding-head, so that when one is broken or disarranged from any cause it may be detached or adjusted individually without affecting the other fingers.

The present invention consists in an improved clamping-head adapted to receive and hold a wooden fly-finger and maintain the same adjustable upon the fiy-frame shaft, so that each finger of a fiy-frame is capable of independent adjustment and detachment. This improved finger-clamp and so much of a fly-frame as is necessary to illustrate its construction and use are illustrated in the accompanying drawings, in which Figure 1 is a plan View of the clamp. Fig. 2 is a longitudinal sectional elevation on the section-line 2 of Fig. 1. Fig. 3 is a transverse sectional elevation on the section-line 3 of Fig. 2; and Fig. 4 is a perspective view of the improved clamp, having a wooden fiy-finger adjusted therein and the same attached to the fly-frame shaft.

In its preferred form this clamp is composed of a fastening-hub 2, having a shape suiting it to fit upon the fly-frame shaft 3, be-

ing bifurcated, so as to provide it with-rearwardly-projecting fastening-lugs at 5, both of which are recessed to receive a clamping-bolt 6, the screw-threaded stem of which enters into the threaded socket of one of the lugs. Projecting forward from this hub 2 are clam ping-arms 7 8, attached rigidly to the hub 2 and capable of being separated sufficiently to enable them to receive the butt of the finger between them and moved toward each other to embrace the finger, being held by a clamping-bolt 9, which enters through lugs Serial No. 555,677- (No model.)

10 11, depending from the arms 7 8, said bolt entering into the tapped hole in one of said arms. These arms 7 8 have their bodies cut out sufficiently to provide a vertical seat for the butt-end of the fly-finger 20, and the inner faces of said arms are made rough, as by means of the teeth 1, so that when forcibly pressed against the sides of the finger 20 they may so engage the same as to securely nip the finger and hold it rigidly in place. A clamp thus constructed will, it is obvious, provide a fiat-bottomed seat or bearing for the under side of the fiy-finger, (see Fig. 3,) and the arms 7 8 will afford sidewise bearings fitting the sides of said finger, so as to maintain the same against lateral displacement,

said finger thus being stiffiy held against vertical or lateral movement whether the clamp is provided'with the roughened inner faces or not, though the same are preferred. Each individual finger thus mounted upon the shaft 3 may be adjusted thereon independently of its neighbor and the whole fly-frame have its fingers maintained in alinement and in such relation to the printed portions of the sheets which it is to deliver as to avoid smutting the same, and when any of the fingers are bent, broken, or have otherwise become defective they may be readily detached and new ones be adjusted in their place without removing the whole frame and without disturbing any of the remaining fingers thereof.

While I have illustrated the arms 7 8 as spring-arms and prefer that embodiment of them, it is practical to have one of them rigid and the other jointed to the carrying-hub, the pair operating as a clamp holding the finger by means of the clamping-bolt 9.

What is claimed is 1. A holder for a wooden or similar flyframe finger, the same consisting of arms 7, 8 permanently connected together so as to provide a vertical seat, and two lateral clampingfaces between which said finger is supported or embraced, the same being provided with a clamping-bolt 9 and with means for rigidly attaching said holder to the fly-shaft at different positions of longitudinal adjustment thereof, substantially as'described.

2. A fiy-frame-finger holder consisting of 100 arms 7, 8 permanently connected together and constructed so as to provide a vertical seat and lateral clamping-surfaces for supporting said finger said arms being provided with a clamping-bolt 9 and extending from a pivoted hub 2, substantially as described.

3. A fiy-fran1e-finger holder consisting of arms 7, 8 permanently connected together and constructed so as to provide a vertical seat and lateral clamping-surfaces for supporting said fingerrsaid arins being provided with a clamping-bolt 9 attached to a pivoted hub 2 having a clamping-screw for attaching the same to the fly-shaft, substantially as described.

In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand in the presence of two subscribing Witnesses.

EDXVIN LELAND SHATTUOK.

itnesses:

F. V. H. CRANE, E. L. SPEIR. 

